Cinderella (2015)
Kenneth Brannagh and Lily James of ‘Downton’ give us a wonderfully romantic new Cinderella. Click to read my entire review.
God’s Pocket (2014)
There is a sadness about this movie, made just before Philip Seymour Hoffman’s tragic death, but it’s well worth watching. Click the movie’s title to read my entire review.
Film Capsules September 2013
Each month, I post a series of very short film reviews—focusing mainly on films that will be fully reviewed in Visual Parables Journal. This capsule-sized feature was started several years ago as a service for clergy, newsletter editors and teachers to alert them to films worth seeing (or, in some cases, as a warning of …
The White Ribbon
Rated R. Our ratings: V- 3; L- 1; S/N-4. Running time: 2 hours 24 min. If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the depth …
The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) (2009)
Rated R. Our ratings: V- 3; L- 1; S/N-4. Running time: 2 hours 24 min. If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the depth …
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Sweeney Todd (2007)
Rated R. Our ratings: V- 9; L- 1; S/N-2 . Running time: 1 hour 57 min. Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. 18If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. 19Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but …
Bambi (1942)
Not rated. V-4; L -0; S/N –2. Running time: 1 hour For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time …